[gopher] Capability files are dangerous

Zack Mayson zmayson46 at googlemail.com
Mon May 14 18:08:46 UTC 2012


On 14/05/2012 17:07, Kim Holviala wrote:
> On May 14, 2012, at 17:33 , Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
>> For most servers, caps.txt will be just another file. Only Bucktooth and
>> Gophernicus generate it by pseudoselector. The server has no idea who is
>> fetching caps.txt and for what purpose.
>
> Actually.... The original poster was somewhat correct with that
assumption. I can now fairly reliably determine between UMN gopher
client, Overbite (the latest betas) and other gopher clients.
Any evidence to back it up? Like an extract from your caps file
maybe.....?

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